>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <lop...@nedharvey.com> writes:
>> From: Edmund White [mailto:ewwh...@mac.com] >> >> Try Blueprint, then - http://devstructure.com/blueprint/ Edward> That. Sounds. Awesome. Will try, thanks for the suggestion. This has been an awesome suggestion, and a discussion I've been following with alot of enjoyment and hope to actually get off my ass and start deploying some sort of CM. I have compute clusters with identical systems which I'd like to bring into cohesion with each other, but the learning curve of cfengine2 and cfengine3 has always turned me off, even though I keep making half hearted efforts to deploy it. The other holdback is legacy systems. Lots of them. Old crufty Solaris 5.8 systems, slightly better 5.9 and now a group of Solaris 5.10 Sparc and x86_64 systems, along with 5.11 starting to appear. Sigh... The other big issue has been just getting the rest of the team to agree to use this setup. No sense in doing all this work if I'm not going to get anyone else to use it as well. Which is a management issue really, but the biggest stumbling block of all. So using chef/puppet/salt/ansible/blueprint all fall down on the legacy support. But maybe that's just me being too perfectionist here. But I do want to automate even these Sparc systems, esp the standalone Oracle servers which need accounts sync'd between them, though not all accounts on all systems. A pain. And the one which cfengine with it's C base seems the best way to solve... So please keep up this discussion, and please keep posting solutions, pointers and maybe even recipes for some of this would be solved. John _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
